Friends of Acadia

This independent nonprofit organization of 3,000 members, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Bar Harbor, strives to protect Acadia National Park“beyond what the government can do,” in their words, by:

Every year, as well, over 2,000 volunteers from the organization contribute more than14,000 hours of work in the national park, clearing drainage along carriage roads to reduce erosion, re-opening and maintaining vistas, cutting along park boundaries for fire protection, and reconstructing existing and abandoned trails.